No, this is not an attempt to produce a high views-to-replies ratio with a potentially salaciously spicy thread title!
My parents tell me that there was a once-studied member of the class, parts of speech called the ejaculation. I’m told that an ejaculation is an outburst, seemingly spontaneous, of a word or phrase which, even with a verb or a noun-subject, is considered a sentence and punctuated by an exclamation point (!). They mention such ejaculations as ‘Pshaw!’ and ‘Damn and blast!’ and ‘Pfiddle!’
Has the non-coarse-language ejaculation died the death of an artform confined by the informality and freedom of an evolving English language fed by the voracious gods of the off-the-shelf entertainment industry?
Once on “Up All Night” Dave Attell was talking with some guy in bar (believe it or not) and the guy said something like “We are having intercourse right now.” Dave said “Am I on top?”
